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The Cloud or Regular Servers, a Technical and business comparison.

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Percy Kwong

We all here about “The Cloud” today and Virtual Private Servers.  The reality is 10 years ago, virtualization as a technology was still in it’s infancy.  While it seemed like a good idea, the reality is, it wasn’t ready for prime time business.  It was more of an exploration of technology, the next logical step;…

Word or Office Application could not create the work file check the temp environment variable [Solved]

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Percy Kwong

If you all of a sudden get this error, don’t fret.  Just do the following: open Regedit (as administrator) from the Start / run prompt or just open a dos window and type regedit.exe Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerUser Shell Folders You should see a key called: Cache registry key Double-click on it and change it’s value…

Promise Pegasys R6 R4 on Windows Bootcamp [SOLVED]

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Percy Kwong

This link has moved.  go here.  

SSD Performance improvements

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Percy Kwong

  So you just bought yourself one of those wonderfully fast SSD Drives.  One little problem though.  They wear down over timpe. Another thing is you’ll start to get used to the speed very quickly and start getting annoyed at how slow it is. It’s like upgrading your car from a buick to a supercar. …

Seriously Speeding up Windows 7 and other Computers [Bootcamp compatible]

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Percy Kwong

OK.  So you’re running Windows and over time, you’ve started to notice things are starting to slow down extensively.  Boot up and log-in start to take minutes instead of seconds.  This tutorial will show you how to speed up your Windows install (and clean up a lot of the mess) over the life of the…

Recommended Products I use these for all my clients.

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Supermicro Motherboards – They work well and have proven chipsets. 3Ware RAID Cards: They’re one of the best in the industry.  They work and I’ve never lost data with them. Remember to buy the battery backup option. Supermicro Cases: Talk about seriously over-engineered cases.  They cool well and are built to last. Quality beyond anything…

RAID and what it Means

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Percy Kwong

RAID.  Rapid Array of Inexpensive Disks.  That’s what it means.  The question is what level of RAID do you need? God knows there are plenty of different types of RAID.  This post explains the different RAID levels and *hopefully, it will help you pick the right configuration for you*** Note:  When in doubt, RAID 1+0…

Updating PHP to on Centos 5.x

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Percy Kwong

Updating PHP on Centos 5 can be confusing with all of the different tutorials out there, but here’s one that absolutely works.

How to Configure Siproxd with PFSense 2.0 and FreePBX with T.38

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Percy Kwong

Configuring Siproxd on pfsense. A definitive guide to making it work. Update: now with pfsense 2.0 directions, spa2102, t.38 fax configurations on freepbx

Sony S-Frame Stupidness [Solved]

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Percy Kwong

Sony S-Frame doesn’t display photos [solved]

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